"Without perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use."
— John Ruskin

January 1, 1970

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At the annual meeting of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1877), in Arrows of the Chase, vol. 2 (in The Complete Works of John Ruskin, vol. 23), p. 129